Poor people / street children in Poland?

I have seen it in Scotland to an extent, but not as much as I have here. More often than not though, it is in the smoking shelter at a nightclub and someone will offer you a pound for a cigarette. I have never taken the pound, but it's more just the done thing.

However I have never seen it to such an extent as here. Walking along the planty I avoid smoking now because I know if I have a cigarette I will be approached by someone (i would say a bum, but just as often it's not) asking me. And I have very often been shouted at by said person for saying no as if I am in the wrong for not giving them a cigarette. And I have not seen that anywhere else.

The gypsies in Old town, Krakow are the worst. I can't stand their attitude and how the drag those poor kids around.

Once when I was at Maccas, on Szewska two gypsy women came in with babies slung across their backs and came up to me, stabbed my cheeseburger with her finger and said "Daj me"

Then there was the time waiting for a bus and a gypsy women came up waving a cup asking for money with her toddler strapped to her front and being breastfed at the same time. So basically she was walking around with her boob popping out.

That's exactly what I've experienced. It's even worse in the summer when you're sitting out in a beer garden. Almost every time I'm trying to enjoy a beer and a smoke somebody walking past asks for a cigarette. That never ever happened to me in the UK or Switzerland.

happened to me when in the czech republic...and i was smoking rolly tobacco back then and the chick wanted me to roll it for her as well. i thought i was being set up for something.